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Sanitation

BESt out of WAStE by Petlad Municipality, gujarat

Aimed towards use of unutilized potential resources and saving of expenses due to lack of fund, Petlad Municipality has used scrap materials to prepare litterbins as part of solid waste
collection infrastructure. In this regard, apart from Municipal employees’ participation through its own workshop, school students have also been engaged in the process. As a result, the
project has been implemented at 1/10th cost of installing new/ other type of dustbins.

Introduction Key dates
here is a thin line of perception between waste and resource, and it largely depends In the month of January, 2018 the project has been completed.
Ton the level of understanding, technological status, financial capability and most Main focus
importantly, approach of the society or the decision maker. In this regard, Petlad Municipality
(PM), with its limited financial capability has set an example of management of waste s the issue was lack of funds, the main focus of the project was to complete the project
through waste itself. The whole idea is to use some of the waste meterials as resource for Awithin allocated grant through saving in expenses. Reuse of scrap by modification
management of solid waste collection process. This particular innovative approach has instead of purchase of new one was found to be the way to meet the demand at lower cost.
made possible installation of solid waste collection system through dustbins at very low Mobilization of resources
cost.
he financial resource was mobilized from Municipality’s own fund. PM has its own
Petlad Municipality, with population of about 55000 is Petlad sub district’s only municipality Tworkshop for welding and gas cutting by employing 3 persons. The presence of
located in Petlad sub district of Anand district in the state of Gujarat. It is the sub district infrastructure at its own made the Municipality capable of preparing the required items
head quarter and the district head quarter Anand is located 24 km away from Petlad. It is a from scrap on its own, at a very low cost. Regarding human resource, municipal employees,
(B) class municipality, founded by Koli Chief Patal Khant. Total geographical area of Petlad school students played an important role to give an aesthetic sense too.
Municipality is 9.19 sq. km. having population density of 6021 persons per sqm.
Petlad houses 10,969 number of households having total population of 55330 with a
decadal population growth rate of 11.44%. Petlad is well known for its efficient citizen
interface for public grievance redressal through its Jan Suvidha Kendra (Citizens Centre).
Almost 79% of all the households in the city have individual water supply connections and
about 96% have access to toilets. Almost 82% of the households are also served by a door
to door waste collection service.
Background

aving a dream of a cleaner town, PM had the requirement of making a solid waste
Hmanagement infrastructure which was hard to implement due to lack of financial
resources. This situation has forced the authority to make some innovative approach to
make it possible with limited financial resources, which resulted in using iron scrap for
making dustbins. The municipality had passed a resolution for selling the iron scrap, which
included big containers for garbage, broken railings, hospital’s scrap beds, rods etc. Usually
this types of scrap are sold to the scrap vendors at very low cost. This iron scrape has the
potentiality to be reused as dustbins by modifying it, which would enable the authority to
implement the project of installing dustbins at very low cost.
Processing at workshop
Process
he process of implementation involved several steps. In the first step, a number of
Tdustbins and litterbins were prepared from waste scrap material. This was done at the
workshop located at the municipality. In the next step, installation of these dustbins was
done at appropriate locations. Since made from scrap material, the dustbins looked ugly
after installation, thus municipal employees including President, members, Chief Officer,
students of the school have given “SHRAMDAAN” to make them beautiful. After an effective
effort by these people, the ugly looking dustbins were added with a sense of beauty and
attraction.
Scrap material

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